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-</section></section><section><p>Last updated: December 04, 2018</p>
+</section><p>(TEMPORARY PAGE)</p>
+<p>Last updated: December 04, 2018</p>
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-</section><p><div style="font-size:20px;line-height:36px">Ever since government agencies began developing face recognition in the early 1960's, datasets of face images have always been central to the development and evaluation of their algorithms. Today, these datasets no longer originate in labs, but instead from family photos albums posted on Flickr, CCTV cameras on college campuses, livestreams at cafes, search engine queries for celebrities, or <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180080/transgender-youtubers-ai-facial-recognition-dataset">videos on YouTube</a>. </div></p><p>While these datasets include many public figures, politicans, athletes, and actors, they also include many non-public figures including digital activists, students, and pedestrians. Some images are used with creative commons licenses, but others were taken in unconstrained scenarios without anyone's awareness or consent. During the last year hundreds of these datasets have been collected to understand how they contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data.</p>
-<p>MegaPixels is art and research by <a href="https://ahprojects.com">Adam Harvey</a> about publicly available facial recognition datasets that aims to unravel the stories behind these datasets. During 2019 this site, coded by Jules LaPlace, will publish research reports, visualizations, downloadable statisticds, and interactive tools for searching the datasets.</p>
-<p>This project is produced in partnership with <a href="https://mozilla.org">Mozilla</a> who has provided the funding to research the datasets, build the site, and develop tools to help you understand the role these datasets have played in creating biometric surveillance technologies.</p>
-<h2>Team</h2>
-</section><section class='images'><div class='sideimage'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/site/about/assets/adam-harvey.jpg' alt='Adam Harvey'><div><p><strong>Adam Harvey</strong> is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (CV Dazzle, Stealth Wear, and SkyLift) explore the potential for countersurveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups), the recipient of 2 PrototypeFund awards, and a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.</p>
-</div></div></section><section class='images'><div class='sideimage'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/site/about/assets/jule s-laplace.jpg' alt='Jules LaPlace'><div><p><strong>Jules LaPlace</strong> is an American creative technologist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision for human rights groups. Jules also builds creative software for artists and musicians.</p>
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+</section><p>(PAGE UNDER DEVELOPMENT)</p>
+<p><div style="font-size:20px;line-height:36px">Ever since government agencies began developing face recognition in the early 1960's, datasets of face images have always been central to the development and evaluation face recognition technology. Today, these datasets no longer originate in labs, but instead from family photo albums posted on social media sites, CCTV camera footage from college campuses, search engine queries for celebrities, cafe livestreams, or <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180080/transgender-youtubers-ai-facial-recognition-dataset">videos on YouTube</a>. </div></p><p>While many of these datasets include public figures such as politicans, athletes, and actors; they also include many non-public figures including digital activists, students, pedestrians, and people's semi-private shared photo albums. Some images are used with creative commons licenses, yet others were taken in unconstrained scenarios without awareness or consent. At first glance it appears many of the datasets were created for seemingly harmless academic research studies, but when examined further it becomes clear that they're also used by defense contractors in foreign countries.</p>
+<p>During the last year, hundreds of these facial analysis datasets created "in the wild" have been collected to understand how they contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data that is helping to power the global facial recognition industry.</p>
+<p>MegaPixels is art and research by <a href="https://ahprojects.com">Adam Harvey</a> about publicly available facial recognition datasets that aims to unravel their histories, futures, geographies, and contents. Throughout 2019 this site, coded by Jules LaPlace, will publish research reports, visualizations, downloadable statistics, and interactive tools for searching the datasets.</p>
+<p>The MegaPixels website is produced in partnership with <a href="https://mozilla.org">Mozilla</a> who provided the funding to research the datasets, build the site, and develop tools to help you understand the role these datasets have played in creating biometric surveillance technologies.</p>
+<p>The MegaPixels site is based on an <a href="https://ahprojects.com/megapixels-glassroom">earlier installation</a>, also supported by Mozilla, at the <a href="https://theglassroom.org/">Tactical Tech Glassroom</a> in London about the facial recognition datasets; and a commission from the Elevate arts festival curated by Berit Gilma about pedestrian recognition datasets.</p>
+<h3>MegaPixels Team</h3>
+</section><section class='images'><div class='sideimage'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/site/about/assets/adam-harvey-3d.jpg' alt='Adam Harvey'><div><p><strong>Adam Harvey</strong> is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (<a href="https://ahprojects.com/cvdazzle">CV Dazzle</a>, <a href="https://ahprojects.com/stealth-wear">Stealth Wear</a>, and <a href="https://ahprojects.com/skylift">SkyLift</a>) explore the potential for countersurveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups), the recipient of 2 PrototypeFund awards, and is a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG. <br><a href="https://ahprojects.com">ahprojects.com</a></p>
+</div></div></section><section class='images'><div class='sideimage'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/site/about/assets/jules-laplace-3d.jpg' alt='Jules LaPlace'><div><p><strong>Jules LaPlace</strong> is an American creative technologist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision for human rights groups. Jules also builds creative software for artists and musicians.<br><a href="https://asdf.us">asdf.us</a></p>
+</div></div></section><section><h3>Additional Researchers</h3>
+<p>Additional research by Berit Gilma.</p>
+</section>
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+</section><p>(TEMPORARY PAGE)</p>
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<li>Aug 22, 2018: "Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software" by James Vincent <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180080/transgender-youtubers-ai-facial-recognition-dataset">https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180080/transgender-youtubers-ai-facial-recognition-dataset</a></li>
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-</section><p>A summary of our privacy policy is as follows:</p>
+</section><p>(TEMPORARY PAGE)</p>
+<p>A summary of our privacy policy is as follows:</p>
<p>The MegaPixels site does not use any analytics programs or collect any data besides the necessary IP address of your connection, which are deleted every 30 days and used only for security and to prevent misuse.</p>
<p>The image processing sections of the site do not collect any data whatsoever. All processing takes place in temporary memory (RAM) and then is displayed back to the user over a SSL secured HTTPS connection. It is the sole responsibility of the user whether they discard, by closing the page, or share their analyzed information and any potential consequences that may arise from doing so.</p>
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